O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

So far, it’s been a painless shift in power, which as Eric Matthes, author of Python Crash Course , argues, should come as no surprise, since “Guido has carried himself, and his role in the community, with such poise for so long.” ” Java. It’s mostly good news on the Java front.

Programming 130

Programming Java Google C++ 130

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Systems, web applications, servers, devices, etc., SREs and DevOps teams can use these incidents to build back better and improve their systems and services. We are kidding of course, but you know something is bad if happens that early in the morning. SREs must manage complex distributed systems. What is an Incident?

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime.

Database 90

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 90

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. Reduce Network Requests. Large preview ).

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

For detailed prerequisites, hardware requirements, and installation guidelines, see our help page for browser monitors in private locations. A: Yes, of course. Q: Is there a plan to support more operating systems? Support for newer versions of these systems will be introduced as well.

Network 154

Network Monitoring Servers Hardware 154

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Monitoring errors on the front-end requires a bit more work because front-end performance is highly dependant on the user’s hardware, software and connection. Of course, there are also times when the problem lies not with your application but with the user’s connection or network configuration.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., Systems built with lots of microservices have different operational characteristics to those built from a small number of monoliths, we’d like to study and better understand those differences.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Upgrades are also rolled out progressively across the cluster of course. SOSP’19. Enter Google! It reminds me of ZeroMQ.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Krste Asanovic from UC Berkeley kicked off the main program sharing his experience on “ Rejuvenating Computer Architecture Research with Open-Source Hardware ”. He ended the keynote with a call to action for open hardware and tools to start the next wave of computing innovation. This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks.

Hardware 18

Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Network effects are not the same as monopoly control. Anyone can rent a rack in a colo and stand up a system. Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word. It has been done.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, and others each have unique strengths and weaknesses and should be evaluated based on factors such as scalability, compatibility, performance, security, data types, community support, licensing rules, compliance, and, of course, the all-important learning curve if your choice is new to you.

Open Source 94

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 94

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut Barham & Isard, HotOS’19. In this paper we argue that systems for numerical computing are stuck in a local basin of performance and programmability. But that won’t solve the ordering issue of course. Challenges compiling non-standard kernels. GPU and TPU).

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

Other distributions like Debian and Fedora are available as well, in addition to other software like VMware, NGINX, Docker, and, of course, Java. This is especially the case with microservices and applications created around multiple tiers, where cheaper hardware alternatives play a significant role in the infrastructure footprint.

Java 132

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 132

O'Reilly

AUGUST 4, 2022

DeepMind’s Gato is an AI model that can be taught to carry out many different kinds of tasks based on a single transformer neural network. The claim is that AGI is now simply a matter of improving performance, both in hardware and software, and making models bigger, using more data and more kinds of data across more modes.

Games 104

Games Social Media Hardware Architecture 104

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Some disruption might occur, but it will be minimal. More in the following sub-section.)

Availability 110

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

To secure consumer data, organizations need to make sure that their networks are updated and protected against any malicious activity. For businesses to remain safe, and sustainable in the face of competition, it is necessary to use a comprehensive approach to foolproofing their systems. Why do we perform Penetration Testing?

Testing 67

Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

Network Connectivity: Establish a reliable network connection between the primary and replica servers. MySQL replication provides high availability, load balancing, and data redundancy, enhancing system reliability. What are the potential advantages and disadvantages of MySQL Replication? and it has many advantages.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. PLOS’19.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), there cannot be high availability.

Availability 85

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 85

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc. Network or connection error. Network latency. Hardware resources. Network Latency. Network latency can be affected due to. Hardware Resources.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Raven is the system that Microsoft built to explore this question, and answer it with a resounding yes. At some later point a SQL query is issued which SELECT s a model and then uses the PREDICT function to generate a prediction from the model given some input data (which is itself of course the result of a query). The last word.

Processing 72

Processing Hardware Database Azure 72

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Delayed five years. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And of course, companies that don’t use AI don’t need an AI use policy. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. The same thing happened to networking 20 or 25 years ago: wiring an office or a house for ethernet used to be a big deal.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” This contains updated and new material that reflects the latest C++ standards and compilers, with a focus to using modern C++11/14/17 effectively on modern hardware and memory architectures. On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

In the same spirit as Paxos Made Live , this paper describes the details, choices and tradeoffs that are required to put a consensus system into production. Physalia is designed to offer consistency and high-availability, even under network partitions. In theory, systems built using this pattern can achieve extremely high availability.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. Don't like the consequences?

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute. For simplicity, we do not include networking or transaction management middleware in this discussion because although important in the real world they do not affect the key concepts.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The predominant desktop situation is relatively straightforward: Browsers handle links, and non-browsers defer loading http and https URLs to the system, which in turn invokes the default browser. Instead, they load content referred by their hosting native app in system-provided WebViews. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

We don’t talk about energy as often as we probably should on this blog, but it’s certainly true that our data centres and various IT systems consume an awful lot of it. The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data. Introducing race logic.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. We help Supercell to quickly develop, deploy, and scale their games to cope with varying numbers of gamers accessing the system throughout the course of the day. Our AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is open for business now.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

Recall that browsers arose atop platforms that universally provided a host of services by the late 90's: system fonts (to support layout programs, including WYSIWYG editing). full TCP/IP & UDP networking, including local network discovery. In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55